INtime Configuration utility (inconfig.exe)

A Windows Control Panel applet that you use to:

• Modify RT local kernel parameters
• Configure which real-time processes are to be auto-loaded at kernel start-up
• Install, uninstall, and verify status of INtime wizards for Microsoft Visual Studio
• Configure a real-time network
• Configure real-time USB interfaces
• Configure a Windows device for real-time kernel usage
• Specify automatic logon parameters, and other miscellaneous settings

You can run this utility by:

• selecting Start>Programs>INtime>INtime Configuration
• Invoking the Control Panel, then selecting INtime

You can access the utility's Help file by running the INtime Configuration utility, then pressing F1.

The Configuration utility includes INCONFCPL.CPL

INtime Device Manager (devconfig.exe, devconfig64.exe)

The INtime Device Manager helps pass control of a plug-and-play device between Windows and INtime. Since Windows gets control when the PC boots, it looks for new hardware and installs associated device drivers as necessary. This may be undesired when a device must be controlled by an INtime process.

The Device Manager may be accessed from the INtime Configuration utility, or may be invoked directly from C:\Program files\INtime\bin\DevConfig.exe (C:\Program Files (x86)\INtime\bin\DevConfig64.exe for 64-bit versions).

You can access the utility's Help file by running the INtime Device Manager, then selecting Help.

INtime Explorer (intex.exe)

A Windows application which allows you to browse the objects in an INtime kernel.

You can run this utility by selecting Start>Programs>INtime>INtime Explorer.

You can also run this utility by right-clicking on the INtime Kernel icon located in the icon tray, and selecting INtime Explorer from the popup menu.

You can also access this utility's Help file by running INtime Explorer, then selecting Help from the pull-down menu.

INscope (INscope.exe)

A Windows program that uses NTX calls to communicate with its self-loaded RT counterpart to trace execution of INtime applications. INScope includes INScope.exe

You can access this utility's Help file by running INScope, then selecting Help from the pull-down menu.

Note:   To access INScope calls and syntax, see INScope.

Spider (spider.exe)

Spider is a source level, multi-tasking debugger. It allows you to load an application on an RT node (local or remote) and step through your source. It provides basic features for viewing variable values, registers, the call stack, and memory as well as setting and removing breakpoints.

Nodemgr (nodemgr.exe)

nodemgr.exe is a Windows command-line utility for starting and stopping local INtime for Windows nodes.

Syntax

nodemgr start nodename | -all [-v] [-silent] [-nostart]
nodemgr stop nodename | -all [-v] [-silent]
nodemgr list [nodename | -all] [-v] [-silent]
nodemgr help | -help | ?

Commands and Options

start

Load and start the INtime kernel on the specified node or all configured nodes.

stop

Stop the INtime kernel running on the specified node or all running nodes.

list

List the status of the INtime kernel on the specified node or all configured nodes.

help

Display help text for the nodemgr command.

-v

Display verbose output.

-silent

Suppress output.

-nostart

Load the INtime kernel on the specified node or all configured nodes but do not start the kernel.

KillRTA

Killrta.exe is a Windows utility which attempts to terminate an RTA running on an INtime node. Termination is attempted by first sending a TERMINATE message to the process, then (optionally) attempting to delete it if it does not respond to the message.

Syntax

killrta [-node nodename] [-force] -name processname|-proc prochandle

-node nodename

Specify the name of the node where the RTA is running

-force

Attempt to terminate the process then if it does not respond to the message attempt to delete the process.

-name processname

Looks up the process name in the root process directory to obtain the process handle.

-proc prochandle

Specify the value of the handle of the process to delete.
Note: Specify either the -name or the -proc option, not both.

Examples:

killrta -node NodeA -proc 1048

Attempt to terminate the process with the handle 1048 on node NodeA. If -node is not specified, defaults to the first local node.

killrta -name CodeEngine

Attempts to terminate the process cataloged as "CodeEngine" in the root process.

killrta -force -proc 1238

Attempts to terminate the process, then deletes it if it does not respond to the TERMINATE message.

PipeRTA

Piperta.exe is a Windows utility which does the following:

• launches an INtime application from Windows on an INtime node and waits for it to terminate
• redirects input from the Windows command to the INtime application stdin stream
• redirects output from the INtime application to the Windows command
• returns the INtime application's exit code (the parameter passed to the exit() call) to the Windows application

The complete options for this utility are as follows:

piperta.exe [process_options] myapp[.rta] [program_arguments]
  process_options may include the following:
   -pmin SIZE     set the process pool_max value
   -pmax SIZE     set the process pool_max value
   -vseg SIZE     set the VSEG size
   -odir SIZE     set the object directory size
       SIZE is of the form NUMBER[KM]
       e.g. 1024 is 1024 bytes, 8K is 8192 bytes and 16M is 16777216 bytes
   -node NODENAME sets the target node
   -xm            forces application to be loaded in XM mode
   -noxm          forces application to be loaded in normal mode
   -wait SECONDS  waits SECONDS for the application to terminate or else exits
   -kill          only with -wait: on timeout terminate the process
                  (with same timeout)
   -log LOGFILE   appends all stdout output to a log file
   -debug         forces a breakpoint on entry
   -stderr        also redirect stderr
   -help          prints this message and exits
  myapp is the program to load (with or without the .RTA extension)
  program_arguments are command line argument for the loaded process

 

Note that if an existing log file is specified then output will be appended to it.

System and network utilities

There are a number of additional system and network utilities for INtime Distributed RTOS. Please follow the links here for further information:

ftpd

File Transfer Protocol server

syslogd

System logging service (Distributed RTOS)

logger

Log a system message

webs

Embedded web server, including INtime Distributed RTOS administration and configuration.

password

Change a user password

RT Application Loader

Load an INtime RT application and instruct the kernel to start it

fatcheck

FAT filesystem consistency checker